This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot.
The original was posted on /r/worldnews by /u/TheDarthSnarf on 2023-12-05 18:53:35.
E.U. Official Cites ‘Huge’ Risk of Terror Attacks in Europe Because of Gaza War
Submitted 2 years ago by bot@lemmit.online [bot] to worldnews@lemmit.online
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/05/world/middleeast/israel-hamas-eu-terror-christmas.html
autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] 2 years ago
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The war in Gaza and the polarization it is causing internationally are creating a major risk of terrorist attacks in the European Union over the December holiday season, Ylva Johansson, the bloc’s commissioner for home affairs, said on Tuesday.
The warning was a reflection of how in Europe, which in recent years has been shaken by terrorist attacks, anger over Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre in Israel and the Israeli military’s increasingly deadly retaliation in Gaza has created new risks.
Ms. Johansson did not mention specific threats, but noted a stabbing on Saturday in Paris, where a German tourist was killed by a man whom the French authorities said had psychiatric disorders and was upset over the deaths of Muslims, including in Gaza.
Ms. Johansson said that the European Union would make available an additional 30 million euros for protection from terror threats, including for places of worship.
In October, a 6-year-old Muslim boy was stabbed to death outside Chicago in an attack that authorities called a hate crime tied to the war in Gaza.
Bibi van Ginkel, an expert at the International Center for Counter-Terrorism in the Netherlands, said that tensions were rising because of the war in Gaza, which she said could have a trigger effect on people who were already sympathetic to extremist ideology.
The original article contains 394 words, the summary contains 216 words. Saved 45%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!